This glowy flowy jellyfish-like pod of ballerina pendants are hanging (or maybe rather ”floating”?) from the ceiling in one of Stockholms more popular waterholes – hot spot/resto Sturehof. The design dates back to 1997 and Swedish designer Jonas Bohlin. The retail price of one individual pendant, called ”Liv Lampan” (Swedish for ”The Life Lamp”) is approx 4900SEK (about [...]

This is the story of a weekend project that resulted in two canary yellow stools… A weekend D.I.Y project – Adding some TLC and Vitamin C I visited a local store for salvaged furniture and came across a pair of stools with woven seats. The pair were a humble 200SEK (about £16/€22). In retrospect I [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention! I had my cousin and 2 friends of his coming over from Paris to stay at my place over a weekend. Had an idea for a sofa bed, and the need for accommodating guests made me act on it! The result is a versatile scraphack which works perfectly for [...]

This hack consisted of making a new, seamless top board to 2 IKEA HEMNES Shoe Cabinets. It´s not the major, obvious hack – but it gives great creative opportunity for customization. The idea for the hack started as I wanted to buy an additional HEMNES Shoe Cabinet (I had already one). The design of the [...]

Although I do love scrap – I also hack other stuff every now and then. Recently I made a Bathtub Front Panel from GORM shelves I found on sale at IKEA (on sale they were 9SEK / 1Euro a piece). My total cost of the hack was about 40€ (approx $55/£35pounds). However, the same effect [...]

The first ScrapHack was a coffee table. Want one too? It´s an easy, no-fuss construction. If you find some good scrap – I´ll help with the hack – Just follow the pictures and see how I did it. Step 1. Find Two Scrap Pallets The ones I used didn´t really match in terms of size, [...]

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